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Quotes by Actor
"The real thing is, you should be seeing these plays in the Theatre. That's what they were written for. That's where the enjoyment is. Studying them is no enjoyment whatsoever."
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"I feel that the thing that probably aided me the most in that scene with the dog was the utilization and using an actual recreation, affective memory, if you want to call it, of pain."
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"You don't need a city charter to know that education is the foundation of any community."
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"I just love bikes. It's not the safest passion to have, but I guess it's better than Russian roulette."
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"I think of my songs as there to be something to move people emotionally."
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"There are many dying children out there whose last wish is to meet me."
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"Getting out from under the shadow of Henry Fonda was difficult."
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"I questioned everything. I didn't see a character developed in Platoon at all. The character in Blue Velvet was much more fascinating to me."
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"Every actor looks all his life for a part that will combine his talents with his personality... 'The Odd Couple' was mine. That was the plutonium I needed. It all started happening after that."
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"That's it. I've said all I've got to say on the world of James Bond."
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"There's a fine line between the Method actor and the schizophrenic."
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"It's difficult when you have to turn down a tremendous amount of money because you don't like what the script is saying and you don't have any money."
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"There have been more books alone written about Hamlet than have been written about the Bible."
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"I went jogging up on Mulholland. In the middle of my run I had some form of asthma attack and couldn't even walk. I couldn't get a ride one block to my house. I thought I was going to die."
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"There has got to be more to life than being a really, really, ridiculously good actor."
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"On The Others, very atmospheric and probably mysterious is how I would say it felt to be on the set. It felt just a little uneasy, the atmosphere that we were trying to capture."
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"I had Courtney Love's left bosom out of her dress on my plate in front of me. It was extraordinary. I didn't know where to look."
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"Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level."
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"The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!"
Boys,
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"Look at the darkest hit musicals - Cabaret, West Side Story, Carousel - they are exuberant experiences. They send you out of the theater filled with music."
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"There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought."
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"Acting is a very personal process. It has to do with expressing your own personality, and discovering the character you're playing through your own experience - so we're all different."
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"I got things like the lotus position long before anybody else did, or at least in the mainstream. But I had fun. I guess my legs are pretty flexible, so I used to get a kick out of doing things like that. I would get into a full lotus with my legs and then roll around."
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"Children are the only form of immortality that we can be sure of."
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"I suppose when I was a kid, and I went to movies, and later went to some plays on my own when I got a little older, in New Orleans, where I was living then, I zeroed in on the actor."
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"My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it."
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"I thought we were going to win the game but we won't take the disappointments, we will take the positives."
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"My childhood is completely... when I look back, it was '50s in New York, upper-middle class, it was completely idyllic and golden and wonderful - sweet in every way."
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"Yeah, we held a junior carp tournament on the St. Lawrence River in New York last August. I hosted that along with a couple of other people."
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